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Headword: *kapanh=tai
Adler number: kappa,326
Translated headword: cords? charioteers?
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*kapanh=tai.
Notes:
The headword, attested only here, has the typical form of a nomen agentis ending in -hths (plural -htai). Its LSJ entry (web address 1) implicitly links it with another hapax, kapa/nia, which Hesychius kappa687 glosses as a(rpedo/nes ('cords', 'snares'); hence kapanh=tai might be 'cord-men' or 'snare-men'. But perhaps a better alternative is to connect it with kapa/nh, "chariot"; hence, 'chariot-men', though "Chariot-man" is also a likely etymology of the name of the hero Kapaneus.
Also possible is a connection with skapanh/ths ('digger'); cf. ps.-Zonaras 1650.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; science and technology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 15 March 2008@20:54:19.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (modified headword, raised status) on 16 March 2008@04:01:41.
Jennifer Benedict (modified headword, expanded note) on 16 March 2008@04:17:35.
David Whitehead (modified keyword) on 16 March 2008@06:10:09.
William Hutton (augmented notes, added keyword, raised status) on 16 March 2008@07:46:25.
David Whitehead (tweaked note) on 27 January 2013@05:03:57.
David Whitehead (coding; another keyword) on 26 December 2015@06:08:34.
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